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Show EX-POSTiSTER GIVEN FREEDOM Former Official Has Sentence Commuted by President Wilson BOISE, Idaho. Dec. 9. An order 'commuting the sentence of Jesse A., Bdafseo, former postmaster at Drlggs Idaho, who pleaded guilty to ;i charge I of em hey.zlement last March, was Issued Is-sued yesterday by President "Wilson, j Edafsen, who was sentenred to a' year's Imprisonment and a fine of S'lSfiL'. at a sitting of the federal court i at l'ocatello. last March, pleaded guil-j ty, hut It Is alleged to have refused to make any statement prior to the passing of the sentence It Is alleged that pei nliar circumstances surround the case, t The man was released from the Ban-' nock county Jail shortly after the or-J der from President Wilson had been received. |